Word: sovietized
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Sakharov was a top Soviet physicist and helped developed its hydrogen bomb in the 1950s, but became a dissident leader in the 1970s...
Sakharov's clashes with four Kremlin leaderships over human rights, foreign policy and the morality of the nuclear weaponry he helped develop as a physicist sent him into forced exile in the Soviet city of Gorky, about 250 miles from Moscow...
...recalled in 1986 by Gorbachev, and swiftly took a leading role in urging the Soviet leader to follow through on Gorbachev's twin policies of perestroika, or restructuring, and glasnost, or openness...
White House spokesperson Roman Popadiuk read a statement praising Sakharov as "a historical figure who will be long remembered for his human rights efforts in the Soviet Union. His voice was an important dimension in the contemporary changes under way in Soviet society...
BRUSSELS, Belgium--NATO foreign ministers said yesterday that Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze would make an unprecedented visit to the alliance's headquarters next week...